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Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1977-08-11

Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1977-08-11, page 01

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LIBRARY, OHIO H ISTORICAL.. SQC J^TY
1982 VELM>. AVE.
COLS. 0, 43211 EXOH
VOL.55 NO.32
AUGUST 11,1977-AV 27
Begin Welcomes Sadat's Mideast Proposals
Begin Meets With Rep. Devine
During his July visit to the United States, Israel's
• Prime Minister Menachem Begin met personally with
Ohio Congressman Samuel L. Devine. They are shown
above during their July 20 meeting in Washington, D-.C.
INS Promises To Move
> t
Against Nazi Criminals
;• By Joseph Polakoff
WASHINGTON, (JTA) - The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization. - Service (INS), under heavy Congres¬ sional pressure to speed the investigation and- deporta- , tion' action against more than 100 alleged Nazi was criminals living in the UnitedStates said Aug. 3 it is on firmer ground now to
' expedite proceedings against them.
The promise to do so came at a House subcommittee hearing that followed on in¬ vestigation started last April - by the General Accounting Office (GAO) whether offi¬ cials of the Justice Depart¬ ment,, the parent agency oi the INS or other U.S. offi¬ cials deliberately blocked action against the alleged Nazi" criminals. -The GAO is an arm of Congress. '
.Under questioning by Rep. Joshua Eilberg (D. Pa.), • who described the, INS role over the past 25 years as "disgraceful," the new INS commissioner, Leonel J. Castillo, told the subcommit¬ tee that the files of the Nazis will be opened both to the GAO and to the subcommit- - tee's own personnel. Castillo , testified that new proce-
- dures had been set up that , will bring "all existing files" and materials connected' with the Nazi war criminal program" from .New York and other district offices to the central office in Washington. '
"From now on," he said, "the review of these files will
be accomplished by at-, torneys rather than investi¬ gators." ,-,, ' In' addition, the subcom¬ mittee received a statement submitted by the State, De¬ partment's deputy adminis¬ trator for security and con¬ sular affairs, John H. DeWitt, that "sound stan¬ dard procedures and effec¬ tive working' relations have now been developed" to ob- • tain testimony. DeWitt said that the "Soviet government has made a serious effort to be co-operative and helpful" although "the Soviets do not have a full appreciation of our evidentiary require-
CCONTIMUED ON PAGE 10)
By Gil Sedan (Copyright, 1977, JTA, Inc.)
JERUSALEM, (JTA) - Premier' Menachem Begin said Aug. 3 that he welcomed proposals for a preliminary meeting of Middle East Foreign Ministers under American" auspices this fall "to prepare the ground" for. reconvening the Geneva con¬ ference.
The proposal was unveiled by President Anwar Sadat at a press conference in Alex¬ andria Aug. 2 following two days of talks with U.S. Secretary of State Vance. The Egyptian leader''re¬ portedly rejected certain American proposals re-, garding the nature of a Mid¬ dle East peace and the pace of Israeli withdrawal from occupied Arab territories.
Begin, interviewed by Israel Radio, described the
' idea of a foreign ministers' ■ meeting as "very construc¬ tive." He said that he had, in fact, made the very same
, suggestion during his visit to Washington last month but ■would, not criticize Sadat lor claiming credit. ' Now that Sadat has agreed -that ..Egyptian Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy and Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe-Dayan would sit at
. the same table, "This is something to welcome," Begin said.
■ Sadat's idea was accepted by Vance who appeared with the Egyptian president at their televised news con¬ ference-Vance said he would try to persuade Syria, Jor¬ dan and Israel to join Egypt in a working group that would meet- under his
auspices in Washington and New York next month.
Vance indicated that the task of these meetings would be to remove the obstacles to the Geveva conference. The most formidable of these ap¬ pears to be Palestinian re¬ presentation. Israel has categorically rejected PLO participation in any peace talks.
.Sadat, who has said he had alternatives in mind to deal with ■ this issue, disclosed I
that during his talks with Vance he received a mes¬ sage from PLO chief Yasir Arafat reminding the Arab states that they -had agreed at their 1974 summit meeting in Rabat that the PLO was the sole legitimate represen¬ tative of the Palestinian peo¬ ple.
The PLO executive com¬ mittee, meeting in Beirut, issued a statement de¬ manding independent repre¬ sentation for their group at
Some Skepticism Expressed Over Intent Of Sadat's Proposal
By Yitzhak Shargil
TEL AVIV, (JTA) - Pre¬ mier Menachem Begin's professed' satisfaction; with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's proposal -for a Mid¬ east foreign ministers' meeting under U.S. auspices to precede the Geneva con¬ ference is not shared by some circles in Israel. Those circles in fact take the pes¬ simistic view that .Sadat's proposal is little more than an Arab ploy to gain time to prepare for a military show¬ down with Israel.
Begin described Sadat's -idea Aug! 3 as "very con¬ structive" and especially welcomed the Egyptian leader's reported remark that he had no objections to face-to-face, talks between the Egyptian and Israeli foreign ministers.
The premier, speaking at a ceremonial occasion at Kfar Habad, reiterated his san¬ guine view. He told his audi-; ence that next month Israel's foreign minister will
meet in Washington or New York with three or four foreign ministers from the .neighboring countries.
But circles here seized. upon a report in the semi¬ official Cairo newspaper Al Ahram as an indication that the Egyptians are back¬ tracking on the idea of face- to-face talks. Al Ahram. quoting an official Egyptian source, said the aim of the preliminary meeting was to ensure the continuation' of consultations between the -Arab foreign ministers and U.S. Secretary of State -Cyrus"Vance on one hand and the Israeli foreign minis¬ ter and Vance on the other. This was interpreted as meaning that the Arabs will not talk to the Israelis but that each side will take separately to the Americans.
The circles who view the Sadat proposal as a .trap for Israel cite what they consi¬ der the discouraging results, so far. of Vance's-current visit to Middle East capitals.
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 10)
Cols. Jewish Federation Announces 77 Allocations
The Columbus Jewish Federation has allocated a to¬ tal of $2,324,486 to local, national and overseas agen¬ cies. In announcing the allocations, Federation presi¬ dent, Ernest Stern said: "Weare'nrpud that, as a re-" suit of 1977 United Jewish Fund Campaign, we are able to meet the requests for Israel, for our own Columbus - agencies, and for those national agencies serving all Americans." ■ .,.' .-•
The funds aJIOcated, according to Lawrence D. Schaffer, vice-tprJBsjdeht otthe Columbus Jewish Fed¬ eration andcKaMhan.of the Allocations Committee, in-' elude $732,674 for local Jewish agencies' in Columbus, . $53,300 for national'Jewish agencies and a total of , $1,538,512 for the United Jewish Appeal, through both the regular campaign and the Israel Emergency Fund.
"In many ways the campaign process is only mean¬ ingful as it relates to the budgeting allocation proc¬ ess," sajd Stern, "since raising money is only ai value if ■ it is effectively disbursed. Beginning during the winter months, while the campaign — under the atk-general chairmanship of Irving Schottenstein — was still under way, the Allocations Committee — under1 the chair¬ manship of Larry Schaffer and his co-chairman Myer Mellman — developed a pre-campaign formula, which subsequently was utilized by the four budget commits
Ernest Stem
Lawrence D. Schaffer
tees in making the allocations."
The budget committees studied the needs of agencies in Columbus, nationally, and throughout the world, and the members of the committees worked over a period of months to prepare a budget that would equally re¬ flect the commitment of the Columbus Jewish com¬ munity to Israel and to the needs of our local agencies.
The, Capital Needs Budget Committee, under the
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 12)
all Arab and international levels dealing with the Mid¬ dle East and the Palestinian issue. The proposed meeting of foreign ministers would by its very nature exclude- the PLO since it would be limited to sovereign states. Observers here and abroad said that chances for such a meeting'hinged on its accep- - - tance by Syria.
The idea of preliminary talks to work out the basis of a peace agreement to be reached at Geneva ori¬ ginated with Secretary of - State Henry Kissinger during his Middle East diplo¬ matic efforts in 1975.
Begin's ~*'peac'e' plan." which he presented to Prest ,,v dent Carter at-their White,- House meetings July 19-20 ■"' and later made, public in part, suggested three alter- •* ; natives to resume the politi¬ cal momentum in the Mid-' east. These were: resump¬ tion of- the Geneva con¬ ference — Begin suggested - Oct. 10 as a likely date;. '■ bilateral talks to be held in - Middle East] capitals or on neutral ground along the .
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 4>
H.U.D. Director't To Be Keynote At Cornerstone Setting
Paul G. Lydens, director of the Columbus area office of the Department of , Housing and Urban Develop¬ ment will^ be the keynote speaker at the cornerstone . setting ceremonies of Heritage Tower — Jewish \ Community Senior Citizens Housing this Sunday, August . Hat 1:30p.m.
Prior to joining the Colum- , bus office in 1974," Lydens was the deputy commis¬ sioner of the Federal Housing Administration and I director of the H.U.D! Rehar bilitation Housing Division.- In April,' 1972 the achieve¬ ment of this division was to develop an industry of housing rehabilitation which resulted from an initial $40' million effort to one of over ' $3 billion in just over a two- . year period. ■ <
A native of Sandusky, Ly¬ dens attended Ohio State University and Hope _ College,^ where he earned a bachelor of arts degree in political science and speech in 1960.
Lydens and his staff were responsible for the final ap-, - proval of Heritage Tower — ' Jewish Community Senior Citizens Housing which is
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 101
Heritage Tower Cornerstone Setting To Be This Sunday
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■4BR0MCLE
liPLy Scrv>"g Columbus and Central Ohio Jewish Community tor Over 50 Years ^0\\JJi
LIBRARY, OHIO H ISTORICAL.. SQC J^TY
1982 VELM>. AVE.
COLS. 0, 43211 EXOH
VOL.55 NO.32
AUGUST 11,1977-AV 27
Begin Welcomes Sadat's Mideast Proposals
Begin Meets With Rep. Devine
During his July visit to the United States, Israel's
• Prime Minister Menachem Begin met personally with
Ohio Congressman Samuel L. Devine. They are shown
above during their July 20 meeting in Washington, D-.C.
INS Promises To Move
> t
Against Nazi Criminals
;• By Joseph Polakoff
WASHINGTON, (JTA) - The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization. - Service (INS), under heavy Congres¬ sional pressure to speed the investigation and- deporta- , tion' action against more than 100 alleged Nazi was criminals living in the UnitedStates said Aug. 3 it is on firmer ground now to
' expedite proceedings against them.
The promise to do so came at a House subcommittee hearing that followed on in¬ vestigation started last April - by the General Accounting Office (GAO) whether offi¬ cials of the Justice Depart¬ ment,, the parent agency oi the INS or other U.S. offi¬ cials deliberately blocked action against the alleged Nazi" criminals. -The GAO is an arm of Congress. '
.Under questioning by Rep. Joshua Eilberg (D. Pa.), • who described the, INS role over the past 25 years as "disgraceful," the new INS commissioner, Leonel J. Castillo, told the subcommit¬ tee that the files of the Nazis will be opened both to the GAO and to the subcommit- - tee's own personnel. Castillo , testified that new proce-
- dures had been set up that , will bring "all existing files" and materials connected' with the Nazi war criminal program" from .New York and other district offices to the central office in Washington. '
"From now on," he said, "the review of these files will
be accomplished by at-, torneys rather than investi¬ gators." ,-,, ' In' addition, the subcom¬ mittee received a statement submitted by the State, De¬ partment's deputy adminis¬ trator for security and con¬ sular affairs, John H. DeWitt, that "sound stan¬ dard procedures and effec¬ tive working' relations have now been developed" to ob- • tain testimony. DeWitt said that the "Soviet government has made a serious effort to be co-operative and helpful" although "the Soviets do not have a full appreciation of our evidentiary require-
CCONTIMUED ON PAGE 10)
By Gil Sedan (Copyright, 1977, JTA, Inc.)
JERUSALEM, (JTA) - Premier' Menachem Begin said Aug. 3 that he welcomed proposals for a preliminary meeting of Middle East Foreign Ministers under American" auspices this fall "to prepare the ground" for. reconvening the Geneva con¬ ference.
The proposal was unveiled by President Anwar Sadat at a press conference in Alex¬ andria Aug. 2 following two days of talks with U.S. Secretary of State Vance. The Egyptian leader''re¬ portedly rejected certain American proposals re-, garding the nature of a Mid¬ dle East peace and the pace of Israeli withdrawal from occupied Arab territories.
Begin, interviewed by Israel Radio, described the
' idea of a foreign ministers' ■ meeting as "very construc¬ tive." He said that he had, in fact, made the very same
, suggestion during his visit to Washington last month but ■would, not criticize Sadat lor claiming credit. ' Now that Sadat has agreed -that ..Egyptian Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy and Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe-Dayan would sit at
. the same table, "This is something to welcome," Begin said.
■ Sadat's idea was accepted by Vance who appeared with the Egyptian president at their televised news con¬ ference-Vance said he would try to persuade Syria, Jor¬ dan and Israel to join Egypt in a working group that would meet- under his
auspices in Washington and New York next month.
Vance indicated that the task of these meetings would be to remove the obstacles to the Geveva conference. The most formidable of these ap¬ pears to be Palestinian re¬ presentation. Israel has categorically rejected PLO participation in any peace talks.
.Sadat, who has said he had alternatives in mind to deal with ■ this issue, disclosed I
that during his talks with Vance he received a mes¬ sage from PLO chief Yasir Arafat reminding the Arab states that they -had agreed at their 1974 summit meeting in Rabat that the PLO was the sole legitimate represen¬ tative of the Palestinian peo¬ ple.
The PLO executive com¬ mittee, meeting in Beirut, issued a statement de¬ manding independent repre¬ sentation for their group at
Some Skepticism Expressed Over Intent Of Sadat's Proposal
By Yitzhak Shargil
TEL AVIV, (JTA) - Pre¬ mier Menachem Begin's professed' satisfaction; with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's proposal -for a Mid¬ east foreign ministers' meeting under U.S. auspices to precede the Geneva con¬ ference is not shared by some circles in Israel. Those circles in fact take the pes¬ simistic view that .Sadat's proposal is little more than an Arab ploy to gain time to prepare for a military show¬ down with Israel.
Begin described Sadat's -idea Aug! 3 as "very con¬ structive" and especially welcomed the Egyptian leader's reported remark that he had no objections to face-to-face, talks between the Egyptian and Israeli foreign ministers.
The premier, speaking at a ceremonial occasion at Kfar Habad, reiterated his san¬ guine view. He told his audi-; ence that next month Israel's foreign minister will
meet in Washington or New York with three or four foreign ministers from the .neighboring countries.
But circles here seized. upon a report in the semi¬ official Cairo newspaper Al Ahram as an indication that the Egyptians are back¬ tracking on the idea of face- to-face talks. Al Ahram. quoting an official Egyptian source, said the aim of the preliminary meeting was to ensure the continuation' of consultations between the -Arab foreign ministers and U.S. Secretary of State -Cyrus"Vance on one hand and the Israeli foreign minis¬ ter and Vance on the other. This was interpreted as meaning that the Arabs will not talk to the Israelis but that each side will take separately to the Americans.
The circles who view the Sadat proposal as a .trap for Israel cite what they consi¬ der the discouraging results, so far. of Vance's-current visit to Middle East capitals.
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 10)
Cols. Jewish Federation Announces 77 Allocations
The Columbus Jewish Federation has allocated a to¬ tal of $2,324,486 to local, national and overseas agen¬ cies. In announcing the allocations, Federation presi¬ dent, Ernest Stern said: "Weare'nrpud that, as a re-" suit of 1977 United Jewish Fund Campaign, we are able to meet the requests for Israel, for our own Columbus - agencies, and for those national agencies serving all Americans." ■ .,.' .-•
The funds aJIOcated, according to Lawrence D. Schaffer, vice-tprJBsjdeht otthe Columbus Jewish Fed¬ eration andcKaMhan.of the Allocations Committee, in-' elude $732,674 for local Jewish agencies' in Columbus, . $53,300 for national'Jewish agencies and a total of , $1,538,512 for the United Jewish Appeal, through both the regular campaign and the Israel Emergency Fund.
"In many ways the campaign process is only mean¬ ingful as it relates to the budgeting allocation proc¬ ess," sajd Stern, "since raising money is only ai value if ■ it is effectively disbursed. Beginning during the winter months, while the campaign — under the atk-general chairmanship of Irving Schottenstein — was still under way, the Allocations Committee — under1 the chair¬ manship of Larry Schaffer and his co-chairman Myer Mellman — developed a pre-campaign formula, which subsequently was utilized by the four budget commits
Ernest Stem
Lawrence D. Schaffer
tees in making the allocations."
The budget committees studied the needs of agencies in Columbus, nationally, and throughout the world, and the members of the committees worked over a period of months to prepare a budget that would equally re¬ flect the commitment of the Columbus Jewish com¬ munity to Israel and to the needs of our local agencies.
The, Capital Needs Budget Committee, under the
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 12)
all Arab and international levels dealing with the Mid¬ dle East and the Palestinian issue. The proposed meeting of foreign ministers would by its very nature exclude- the PLO since it would be limited to sovereign states. Observers here and abroad said that chances for such a meeting'hinged on its accep- - - tance by Syria.
The idea of preliminary talks to work out the basis of a peace agreement to be reached at Geneva ori¬ ginated with Secretary of - State Henry Kissinger during his Middle East diplo¬ matic efforts in 1975.
Begin's ~*'peac'e' plan." which he presented to Prest ,,v dent Carter at-their White,- House meetings July 19-20 ■"' and later made, public in part, suggested three alter- •* ; natives to resume the politi¬ cal momentum in the Mid-' east. These were: resump¬ tion of- the Geneva con¬ ference — Begin suggested - Oct. 10 as a likely date;. '■ bilateral talks to be held in - Middle East] capitals or on neutral ground along the .
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 4>
H.U.D. Director't To Be Keynote At Cornerstone Setting
Paul G. Lydens, director of the Columbus area office of the Department of , Housing and Urban Develop¬ ment will^ be the keynote speaker at the cornerstone . setting ceremonies of Heritage Tower — Jewish \ Community Senior Citizens Housing this Sunday, August . Hat 1:30p.m.
Prior to joining the Colum- , bus office in 1974," Lydens was the deputy commis¬ sioner of the Federal Housing Administration and I director of the H.U.D! Rehar bilitation Housing Division.- In April,' 1972 the achieve¬ ment of this division was to develop an industry of housing rehabilitation which resulted from an initial $40' million effort to one of over ' $3 billion in just over a two- . year period. ■ <
A native of Sandusky, Ly¬ dens attended Ohio State University and Hope _ College,^ where he earned a bachelor of arts degree in political science and speech in 1960.
Lydens and his staff were responsible for the final ap-, - proval of Heritage Tower — ' Jewish Community Senior Citizens Housing which is
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 101
Heritage Tower Cornerstone Setting To Be This Sunday
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